Quotes About Contentment

A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

People first, then money, then things.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.

Success to me is my friends and family are healthy and happy and I feel good about myself at the end of the night and I can sleep at night.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

Success to me does not mean money.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.